Street-car fender.



No. 628,|45. Patented July 4, |899.

' G. H. HOLLINGSWORTH.

STBEET'CAR FENDER.

(Application led Apr. 27, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES v APA-*IrnNT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. HOLLINGSWORTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THECONSOLIDATED OAR FENDER COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

STREET-CAR FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 828,145, dated July 4,1899.

Application filed April 27, 1899. Serial No. 714,703. (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. HOLLINGS- WORTH, of the borough ofManhattan, city and county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Car Fenders; andI do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention relates to the class of cal'- fenders which are attachedto a street-car and are normally held above the track and are arrangedto be dropped upon the track by the motorman when there is danger thatthe car will pass over or collide with a person or obstruction on thetrack; and the invention relates more especially to the mechanism forholding the fender above the track and dropping it upon the track.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, efficient, andinexpensive mechanism for supporting and dropping the fender,whichembodies few disconnected parts and which may be readily andconveniently applied to any car; and to these ends the inventionconsists in the features and combinations hereinafter described, and setforth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section,showing a car equipped with -a fender which is provided with the presentimprovements. Fig. 2 isa front-elevation showing the means forsupporting and dropping the fender. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the devicesfor operating the latches and the supporting-plate therefor.

The improvements are shown in connection with afront guard, such as isshown in the Patent No. 574,833, granted to A. J. Thornley January 5,1897, although it will be understood that the invention may be used inconnection with other forms of guards or fenders. In the fender shown insaid patent the latches for supportingthe guard are operated by means ofarms secured to a rock-shaft extending transversely of the car androcked by a pin which rests on a third arm secured to said shaft. Withthe presen-t' improveings which are engaged by trunnions projecting fromthe side plates 6 of the guard 13, as more clearly shown in said patent.To the inner face of each of the plates 6 is pivoted arearwardly-extending arm 7, underlying which is a lug 8, adjustablysecured to said plate. The arms 7 extend through slots 9 in brackets 10,which are secured to the under side of the car-platform. A lever 11 ispivoted at 12 in the bracket 10, and its lower end is arranged to lieacross the slot 9 and form a catch for engaging the arm 7. When the arms7 are below the ends of thelevers 11, the lugs 8 rest against the vunderside of said arms, and the parts are so adjusted that the end of theguard Yis then above the track. When the levers 11 are rocked on theirpivots, the lower ends of said levers are drawn to one side of the slots9 and arms 7 are released and the guard drops ontothe track. Each leverV11 has a laterally-projecting arm 14, which is engaged by aspring-pressed pin 15, mounted in the bracket 10, which spring-pressedpin serves to hold the lever 11 in its normal position across the slot 9and to return said lever to this position as soon as the arm 7 returnsto its normal position.

The present invention .relates-more especially to the devices foroperating the levers or catchesll to release the guard and allow it todrop. These devices in the form shown are as follows: The lever 7 at theside of the car shown is connected, by means ,of a link 16, with one arm17 of a bell-crank lever, the

-other arm 18 of which is engaged by alever 19, the pivot of which is atright angles to the pivot of the lever 17 18. The lever 17 18 is pivotedbetween lugs 20, formed on a' plate or bracket 2l, and the lever 19 ispivoted between lugs 22, formed on the same plate or roo bracket. Thelever 19 is engaged by a pin 23, which projects up through thecar-platform into position to be operated by the motorman. When themotorman forces the pin 23 down, lever 19 is rocked and in turn rocksthe lever 17 18, forcing the arm 17 outward. This movement of arm 17,acting through the link 16, draws the lower end of the lever 11 fromabove the arm 7 and releases said arm. The lever 11 on the side of thecar (not-shown) is connected by a link 16 to the arrn 17' of a secondbell-crank lever, the other arm 18 of which is engaged by the lever 19and is operated in the same manner and at the same time as the lever 1718. The arms 18 and 18 preferably overlap each other, the arm 18 bcingbifurcated to receive the arm 18, and said arms are preferably connectedby a pin 24, passing t-hrough slots in said arms. The lever 17' 18 ispivoted between lugs 20', formed on plate 2l. Vhen the arms 18 and 18'are depressed, the bell-crank levers rock in opposite directions, thussimultaneously operating the catches at each side of the car. Theposition of the bell-crank levers may be adjusted by tightening nuts 25engaging right and left hand threads on the adjacent ends of the rodscomposing the links 1b' and 16.

The above construction forms a simple and efficient mechanismforsupporting the guard, and by pivoting the bell-crank lever and theoperating-lever to the same plate or bracket the devices for operatingthe latches may be readily and conveniently secured to the car.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. In a car-fender, the combination with a guard, of a catch at eachside of the car for supporting said guard, two bell-crank levers, linksconnecting said catches with said levers, and means operated from thecar-platform for simultaneously rocking said levers, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a car-fender, the combination of a guard, a catch at each side ofthe car for supporting said guard, two bell-crank levers havingoverlapping arms, links connecting the other arms of said levers withsaid catches, a lever resting on said overlappin g arms, and means foroperating said lever from the carplatform, substantially as described.

3. In a car-fender, thel combination with a guard having arearwardly-projecting arm, of a lever 11 for engaging said arm, abellcrank lever 17, 18, a link 16 connecting said levers, and means forrocking said bell-crank lever from the car-platform, substantially asdescribed.

4. In a car-fender, the combination with a guard havingrearwardly-projecting arms at each side of the car, of levers 11 forengaging said arms, bell-crank levers 17, 18 and 17', 18', links 16 and1G connecting levers 17, 18, and 17', 18 with said levers 11, and meansfor simultaneously rocking said bell-crank levers, substantially asdescribed.

5. In a car-fender, a bracket or plate, two bell-crank levers pivotedthereto, a lever for operating said bell-crank levers also pivoted tosaid plate, latches forsupporting the guard, and connections betweensaid bell-crank levers and said latches, substantially as described.

G. In a car-fender, the bracket or plate 2l, lugs 2O and 20' on saidplate, bell-crank lever 17, 18 pivoted to lugs 20, bell-crank lever 17',18' pivoted to lugs 20', lugs 22 on said plate and lever 1:) pivoted tosaid lugs and arranged to engage the arms 1S and 18 of said bellcranklevers, substantially as described.

GEORGE H. HOLLINGSWORTH.

Witnesses:

GEO. G. BOWMAN, A. C. CHRIsTIANsEN.

